Facial Recognition

Stephanie Kobakian

Mitchell O’Hara-Wild

26 September 2016

Winter research project

Project goals

  • Find the best facial recognition software for tennis matches
  • Build manually classified dataset of faces
  • Compare software performance under varied conditions
  • Determine ideal camera feeds for facial recognition

Challenges

  • Access to usable images and videos
  • Availability of software
  • Using the software
  • Time constraints

Applications of facial detection software

Camera auto-focus

Camera auto-focus

Facebook’s image tagging

Facebook’s tagging feature for quick classification of friends

Snapchat filters

snap

Surveillance and security

security

Google’s Mobile Vision